This body of work is an extension of my ongoing interest in Oshawa heritage. Based on archival photographs (Ontario Archives, Bouckley Collection), the series consists of mixed media works on canvas. The content deals with incidental images found in early photographs, often grainy or blurry but suggestive of daily life at the time. The act of featuring these images is a subversion of the original intent of the photographer, calling up the manner in which we are all background strangers incidentally captured in passing, and as a picture-taking culture we also participate in capturing background as well as foreground ourselves.
Image Details
1. Durant Star 1923, 20 x 16 in, canvas, acrylic, organdy, 2011
2. Out of Time, 28 x 35 in,
3. Man in Street, 16 x 10.5 in, graphite on rag paper, 2011
4. 20 Simcoe CIBC, 20 x 16 in, acrylic, organdy and image transfer on canvas, 2011
5. 20/20, 35 x36 in, acrylic, organdy and image transfer on canvas, 2011
6. The Pram, 16 x 20 in, acrylic and image transfer on canvas, 2011
7. 20 Simcoe North, 16 x 20 in, acrylic and image transfer on canvas, 2011
8. Tea Shop, 24 x 16 in, acrylic and image transfer on canvas, 2012
9. Corner 1, acrylic and image transfer on canvas, 2011
10. Corner 2, acrylic and image transfer on canvas, 2011
11. Durant 2, drawing and transfer on rag paper, 2012